A Night In Alone

[dorchadas]

sashagee is off at an event tonight so I'm sitting at home. I just finished my exercise (70 minutes a day by the watch) and finished making a couple PRs for Cataclysm, so now I'm sitting down at my computer desk and playing Genshin Impact and watching some videos about the new WoW expansion that's coming out. Am I going to play it? Absolutely not. I'm out of WoW, and everything I've heard of Classic indicates that the way that people play is irrevocably changed and I would hate it if I went back. But the world is one of my favorite fictional worlds, so I still keep up with the story and the community around it no matter how bad things get (and they've gotten pretty dire at times).

On the other hand, I have been looking into buying Diablo II: Resurrected. I put thousands of hours into Diablo II over the years, from the summer of 2001 where uriany, sephimb, and I got together basically every single day after work and played Diablo II for hours right up until around 2017. While Blizzard botched Warcraft III Reforged to the level that it put me off continuing my journey through the Warcraft games (I reviewed Warcraft: Orcs and Humans back in 2017 and then just...never got around to any of the other games. Oops), I've heard that the Diablo II remaster was actually good, made by people who clearly care about Diablo without any of the nonsense from later Diablo games. Spell effects are way more impressive, the graphics are better, and you still have tons of runewords and synergies and so on you can make. Plus it has shapeshifting druids with nature magic, which is probably my favorite character type in any RPG. I'm going to wait for a sale, though--after thousands of hours there's no way I'm paying $40 for the same game again.

We had a Farmer's Market Dinner tonight but I sadly neglected to take a picture. It was (beef) BLTs, with beef bacon being the only non-farmer's market purchase. We used tomatoes from my parents' garden, lettuce and cucumber from Nichols' Family Farms, bread from Lost Larson, and blackberries from the farmer's market we went to last weekend out in the suburbs. Laila's plate had the most picturesque meal, all arranged together and given to her, and of course she smeared it all together within seconds of it being placed in front of her. She ate nearly everything, though.

We also ran into someone at the Farmer's Market yesterday who recognized me from Mishkan and asked if we were going to be at services tomorrow. They're outdoors, and last time Laila had a great time running around in the play area next to where people were seated, so I told her yes. We'll be there.